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Duffel Bag Poems - Poems about Duffel Bag

Premium MemberGeno's Roaches

...On youth's restless green puff
I rode a greyhound bus southbound.
Everything I owned stuffed into one duffel bag.
Forty eight hours on highway x.

It was getting dark so I settled for the first ...
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Categories: duffel bag, adventure, travel, youth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTurning Up Her Imagination

...keep the music sorrowfully low,
so big daddy doesn’t hear.
the shadowy figures, surrender
and whisper in your ear.

the psychedelic colors flow
like the sea foam beat.
Angie, your c...
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Categories: duffel bag, dark,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberA Pound of Flesh

...A man of unquestioned probity in his community, stumbles upon
A hidden duffel bag in the woods while camping with his family
He pulls it out of the dirt and zips it open. The duffel bag 
Is stuffe...
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Categories: duffel bag, corruption, dark, imagery, money,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberBallad For a Homeless Woman

...Each day, she wallows in unspeakable despair 
                  Her hunger is unslakable
          There's misery in her downcast eyes

    Poor woman, a have-not i...
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Categories: duffel bag, girl, humanity, imagery, poverty,
Form: Tristich

Premium MemberExpendable For a Cause

...A young man carrying a green duffel bag
over his shoulder shifts when he walks.
Off to war for our country and flag.
No military knowledge with little talk.

Enemy troops marched acr...
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Categories: duffel bag, bereavement, soldier, war,
Form: Quatrain



Soldier

...As I laced up my tennis shoes
I hurried to meet up with you
and ran to find you getting off the bus
And when I saw you standing there
in uniform so debonair
I was hoping everyone would notice us...
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Categories: duffel bag, war,
Form: Ballad

Red, White, and Blue

...The colors of our flag
Do not stand for freedom
Anymore.

Red shall not be to honor the blood spilled by our troops
But rather the blood 
Spilled by those who wake up every day in fear
Of half...
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Categories: duffel bag, peace, political,
Form: Free verse

Mooselick

...Have you seen Ms.Cynthia Morris' moose 
Who has eaten Ms. Kim Patricia’s goose? 
She laid a golden egg 
In my red duffel bag 
While I was running for the loo bowels loose 





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Categories: duffel bag, nonsense,
Form: Limerick

Anna My Daughter

...Anna fell in love with a Pterodactyl
                                 They pecked and petted in a reflex tactile
                                                 She laid a big egg
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Categories: duffel bag, nonsense,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberMemories Mirrored

...Memories Mirrored
                  by Odin Roark

A Boy Scout essential
The polished metal card mirror
The unbreakable monitor
Made to master Morse code
Used to measure wanna-be whiskers
And such

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Categories: duffel bag, war,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAn Amulet of Peace

...An amulet of peace hung ‘round my neck,
An AR16 rifle in my hands….
Seemed like such a paradox,
In the paddies and jungles of Vietnam.

An amulet of peace hung ‘round my neck,
A man’s life was in my ...
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Categories: duffel bag, adventure, america, angst, change,
Form: Rhyme

A Great Night Out

...It was now September there was a smell of autumn in the air autumn fires burned,
On a bleak night lying on a cold wet floor the night chilled all that were out,
The naked earth was cold hard, in the ...
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Categories: duffel bag, depression, happy, night, autumn,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberHe Was My Sun

...He was my sun, my one and only son,
attired as a cowboy for the day. 
And so I handed him a little gun
of fastened random sticks, for him to shoot and play.

Attired as a cowboy for the day
he ...
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Categories: duffel bag, war,
Form: Pantoum

Premium MemberPtsd

...our Jeeps pulled into hanger four as we saluted our first Sgt my thoughts were racing again as home became a vivid battle zone of raw emotions several caskets lined the entrance way inside of the cha...
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Categories: duffel bag, adventure,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Combat

...I remember that day and never looking back
I said goodbye to my family and grabbed my duffel bag
Im off to be a hero just like my grandfather and my dad
Im going to fight for America Im going to beco...
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Categories: duffel bag, america, anger, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: I do not know?

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